Upcoming Idealware report shows Facebook helps with event attendance, membership, volunteerism & even fundraising Guest post by Kyle Andrei Idealware Which nonprofits are seeing success with their Facebook Page? In February Idealware distributed a survey (through an informal email outreach) to more than 500 nonprofit professionals who were using Facebook at their organizations. Well, […]
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CharityHowTo webinar: How to activate your nonprofit’s supporters
We’ve long been admirers of CharityHowTo, the online resource for nonprofits looking to up their game. So it’s fitting that I’ll be joining partner John Haydon as a regular contributor to CharityHowTo’s webinar series — starting tomorrow. Move the Needle! How To Get Your Supporters to Take More Action and Donate More Money ($69.95) is […]
16 ways to get more comments on your Facebook Page
Getting fans to comment on your Facebook Page can take a lot of time and effort. And it can sometimes be painful seeing other Facebook Pages that make engagement look easy. But even the most active Facebook Page walls began from a standing start. And many of them got to where they are today by […]
10 rules for how nonprofits should use Twitter
As a community organizer, Twitter makes a lot of sense. Organizing is about building relationships and mobilizing people around a cause. Twitter does exactly that. I have noticed that many organizations don’t understand that Twitter is a social network of one-on-one peer relationships.
Outtakes from Sustainatopia
And an interesting debate: Should journalism offer calls to action? This week I spent four days at Sustainatopia, the Caribbean-flavored conference in Miami that brought social entrepreneurs, VCs, artisans, celebrities, media activists and a fair number of Miami’s beautiful people together for a celebration of sustainability — and a call to arms over what […]